Hume Recites 'Rave Reviews' for Obama 'In Much of National Media'

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By Brent Baker (Bio | Archive)
March 19, 2008 - 22:09 ET

Reciting three quotes highlighted Tuesday night on NewsBusters (and the MRC's Wednesday CyberAlert), plus one from CNN's Campbell Brown which we missed, FNC's Brit Hume led his “Grapevine” segment Wednesday night by illustrating how “Barack Obama's speech on race yesterday played to rave reviews in much of the national media.” Hume recounted:

On NBC, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart said the address was, quote, "a very important gift the Senator has given the country." NBC's own Chris Matthews said it was, quote, "worthy of Abraham Lincoln" and quote "the best speech ever given on race in this country." ABC's George Stephanopoulos said Obama's refusal to renounce his highly controversial pastor was, quote, "in many ways an act of honor." And on CNN, Campbell Brown called the speech "striking" and "daring," asserting that Obama had, quote, "walked the listener through a remarkable exploration of race from both sides of the color divide, from both sides of himself."

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That effusing from Brown, formerly of NBC, came at the top of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 which she anchored Tuesday evening:

Whether or not you agree with what Barack Obama said and whether or not it solves his immediate political problem, it was striking. And, in one respect, it was daring. Instead of simply distancing himself today from his former pastor's offensive remarks, Senator Obama took the opportunity and the risk of doing much more. Quietly, but clearly with great passion, he walked the listener through a remarkable exploration of race from both sides of the color divide, from both sides of himself.

For the full quote from Matthews on Hardball, see the NewsBusters item by Geoff Dickens (MRC CyberAlert version), “Chris Matthews Hails Obama Speech as 'Worthy of Abraham Lincoln.'”

For the quotes championing Obama from Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart on the NBC Nightly News and George Stephanopoulos on ABC's World News, check my NewsBusters posting (also the lead Wednesday MRC CyberAlert item), “'Extraordinary' Obama Speech a 'Gift' for 'Confronting Race in America' with 'Honesty.'”

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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Did Hume present a

March 19, 2008 - 22:17 ET by balboa

Did Hume present a dissenting opinion?

No balboa...

March 19, 2008 - 22:21 ET by MightyMouth

But I did detect something close to a yawn, but not quite. That would have been unfair and unbalanced.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Seems kinda odd, doesn't it?

March 19, 2008 - 22:24 ET by balboa

Seems kinda odd, doesn't it? To not present a side other than one positive for Obama?

totally..

March 19, 2008 - 22:33 ET by MightyMouth

I don't see how a "respectable" news channel could possible do anything but fawn (and felate) his holiness Barrak Millhouse Obama.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

»→ MM

March 19, 2008 - 22:35 ET by Cool Arrow

Shall we refer to hinm as "his Blowliness"?

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It's not that It all

March 19, 2008 - 22:41 ET by red_dragon311

It's not that

It all started with the new VW beetle.

Some baby boomers wanted us to "re-live" thier time so the first thng the staple car or thier time.

next we get "our Viet nam" ...IE Iraq

NOW we have our MLK ....Barak H-word Obama.

the problem is hippies were protesting being drafted.  

 now all this is to show how open minded they are. +

 

 

I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist

haha

March 19, 2008 - 22:59 ET by MightyMouth

the bettle is only made in Mexico (who woulda thunk?) Check out Berkley for the home of the hippies (and I thought it was Boulder Co.) If anythig Obama is riding on the coat tails of MLK, but about a generation too late! I defy anyone to prove that institutional racism is alive!! However... individual racism will always survive (between all races)! Try to stifle human nature and you are bound to fail.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

there are about

March 20, 2008 - 10:30 ET by red_dragon311

there are about 5,000,000,000,000 in the streets of Mexico City and 3/4 of that number are taxi's

 

I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist

With any luck, next the Dems

March 20, 2008 - 09:37 ET by connorin

With any luck, next the Dems will get THEIR 1968 Democratic National Convention

Deplorable Behavior

March 19, 2008 - 22:17 ET by Gat New York

It is the role of the media to report news and much of the MSM has walked away from their profession.

This is the most unprofessional behavior I have ever seen from MSM in their protection of this man. They have now gone to extent of lying for him and creating a completely false reality for their readers and viewers. 

What they do not understand is that no one is listening them because they do not influence the majority of Americans who have already found Obama's little game offensive.

 

 

THE QUESTION?

March 19, 2008 - 22:20 ET by PawpawN

The question that no news outlet has stated: "How did it play in Peoria?"

Don't know abut Peoria

March 19, 2008 - 22:24 ET by kch50428

It went over like flatulence in a place of worship for me in North Iowa.

I heard it didn't sit well with grits down south

March 19, 2008 - 22:26 ET by PawpawN

Seems down south it didn't sit well with grits, in Virginia never a word has been heard!

»→ THE ANSWER

March 19, 2008 - 22:25 ET by Cool Arrow

About like Poughkeepsie

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And that might be?

March 19, 2008 - 22:27 ET by PawpawN

Pray[pun on words] tell, how was that?

»→ Poughkeepsie

March 19, 2008 - 22:30 ET by Cool Arrow

All I really know is the Concho Valley in Texas.

Obama don't know baseball, because he didn't tag any of the bases.

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Cool, the MSM says he hit a homerun, my sources say K-ed

March 19, 2008 - 22:34 ET by PawpawN

All the fawning of the MSM is that this was the SPEECH of our lifetime, maybe the last 150 years.  I must have missed something.  I've re-read it, watched it over and over, and, for the life of me, I don't get it.  I must not be down for the stroke! 

»→ I missed it too PawN

March 19, 2008 - 22:40 ET by Cool Arrow

Something freudian about him hating his grandmama but he wouldn't say a bad word about his absentee daddy.

Guess his dad deserved lots of respect or something like that.  Gets him street cred.

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Paw

March 19, 2008 - 23:34 ET by Noel Sheppard

Paw,

I beg to differ: http://newsbusters.o...

ns

»→ Noel

March 19, 2008 - 23:38 ET by Cool Arrow

Nothing if not thorough.

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Wasn't that a LONESTAR song-"What Might Have Been"

March 20, 2008 - 00:11 ET by PawpawN

Think LONESTAR sang "What Might Have Been".

Chicago must have a warehouse full of buses.....

March 19, 2008 - 23:03 ET by Rovin

 

Would I trust this man to be the President of the free world knowing he has just thrown his grandmother under the bus to gain his political position that continues to fill his empty suit?
I don’t think so. Obama is catering to the same principals that Carter and Clinton and many of the left use to bring race into the conversation as some “white-suppression” conspiracy that only the liberal left have the tools to provide, (more failed government-dependency-welfare programs), that some how blacks will emerge from their oppression. How many more generations will it take for Black America to wake up to the bulls**t rhetoric that liberals use to make themselves feel good about themselves while promising some new government program that will pull Blacks from their conceived suppression?

Obama’s embracement of Wrights screeds only solidifies his socialist mentality that a diverse society can only be mended by government intervention. With Obama’s speech , he has maintained a large percentage of the black vote while providing no change in the status quo. But who’s surprised?  The one thing you have to admire is the guy that puts the words into the telepropter.....that feller's got a future somewhere other than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

 Rovin

»→ It's OK Rovin

March 19, 2008 - 23:10 ET by Cool Arrow

His grandma was a White woman who made him cringe.

And I think they fixed the bus.  But his crazy uncle is off limits.

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he has just thrown his grandmother under the bus...

March 19, 2008 - 23:44 ET by MightyMouth

Well clearly she was expendable, being white and all. After all, everyone who is white in America must have been, or is now a racist. The country clearly needs a savior from this wanton racist path we are on. That Savior is Barrack Millhouse Obama! PTL!!!!!!!

Can I get a f'ing Amen?

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

»→ And all the children said Amen.

March 19, 2008 - 23:47 ET by Cool Arrow

He will lead us in the path of dollars for victims.

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ya know cw...

March 20, 2008 - 00:09 ET by MightyMouth

I as a "white guy" don't give a rats ass about race. All I care about is character and ability. And I suspect that most(if not all) employers feel the same way. This is the 21st century, what business actually cares about skin color?

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Me too, MM

March 20, 2008 - 00:20 ET by Cool Arrow

Ability answers to opportunity.

Character is most often revealed once in the door.  Ability, when merged with character is a sonderful thing.

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i believe the ones listed

March 20, 2008 - 14:08 ET by TruthMonger

i believe the ones listed in the "black pages" might care:)

http://www.blackpages.com/

I saw this tonight ...

March 20, 2008 - 00:03 ET by drillanwr

And when Hume played all the clips back to back I couldn't help but feel/think the MSM talkingheads had pre-written their praises of Obama before he'd even read the speech ...

Also, yesterday I read on powerline blog that Obama had brought his [white] grandmother to the speech ...

Can anyone confirm this? 

 

When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

»→ Don't know drill

March 20, 2008 - 00:06 ET by Cool Arrow

But I suspect he made her ride in the back of the bus before throwing her under it.

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Straight reporting

March 20, 2008 - 01:41 ET by KC Mulville

If you hadn't heard the Obama speech, and you went to news outlets to find out what he actually said, would you have found it? No. The news outlets described the speech, but they didn't report what was said.

Let's explain with a simple sentence. "The soldiers attacked the city." That's a plain report of an event, with two bare nouns and a verb. Now, add a few modifiers.

  • The heroic soldiers bravely attacked the terrorist city.
  • The criminal soldiers traitorously attacked the innocent city.

Obviously, the nouns are still there, but the modifiers change the story. That's what the media did yesterday with Obama's speech -- they dropped the nouns and gave only the modifiers. Test it yourself. Put yourself in the position of someone who hadn't heard Obama's speech, and wanted to know what Obama actually said. Instead of a straight report on Obama's reasoning, here's what you heard:

  • "it was striking. And, in one respect, it was daring" (What was?)
  • "walked the listener through a remarkable exploration of race"
  • "Extraordinary," "gift," and so on ...

See if you can find an analysis of what was actually said. You can find a link to the speech, but you won't find much analysis of the actual argument. Instead, we get glowing modifiers. That's not reporting. That's cheerleading.

MSM, give it a rest

March 20, 2008 - 02:39 ET by gordon

The media have completely reversed themselves.  They have reality tv but not reality news.  I don't care whose grandmother did what, whose preacher said what, etc.  I want to hear the news tell me what qualifications these candidates have for acting as my representative to the rest of this planet.  I don't care who answers the phone at 3am or who went to Iraq today.  Just give me their qualifications, period.  The news is just like American Idol and I don't watch that either.

moved

March 20, 2008 - 10:18 ET by pocomoco

moved

Talk about Ignorant Whites!

March 20, 2008 - 10:34 ET by Chasvs

Now these must be the Ignorant Whites that the editor of Time Magazine was talking about.

If this speech was anything but a declaration or War against Whites in America by the leader of the Black Nationalist I don't know what it was!

Ignore this at your own peril!